(Source: Bloomsbury)
Bloomsbury is publishing a volume containing essays
on ideology and criminal law in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Nazi-occupied
Norway, apartheid South Africa, Francoist Spain, and the authoritarian regimes
of Brazil, Romania and Japan.
ABOUT THE BOOK
With populist,
nationalist and repressive governments on the rise around the world,
questioning the impact of politics on the nature and role of law and the state
is a pressing concern. If we are to understand the effects of extreme
ideologies on the state's legal dimensions and powers – especially the power to
punish and to determine the boundaries of permissible conduct through criminal
law – it is essential to consider the lessons of history. This timely
collection explores how political ideas and beliefs influenced the nature,
content and application of criminal law and justice under Fascism, National
Socialism, and other authoritarian regimes in the twentieth century. Bringing
together expert legal historians from four continents, the collection's 16
chapters examine aspects of criminal law and related jurisprudential and
criminological questions in the context of Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany,
Nazi-occupied Norway, apartheid South Africa, Francoist Spain, and the
authoritarian regimes of Brazil, Romania and Japan. Based on original archival,
doctrinal and theoretical research, the collection offers new critical
perspectives on issues of systemic identity, self-perception and the
foundational role of criminal law; processes of state repression and the
activities of criminal courts and lawyers; and ideological aspects of, and
tensions in, substantive criminal law.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Stephen Skinner
is Associate Professor of Comparative Legal History and Human Rights at the
University of Exeter.
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